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Byline: LORNE JACKSON

HIGHER education certainly wasn't like this when I was a student.

There's the drumming for a start.

The third floor corridor in Kidderminster College has turned into a brontosaurus's rib cage, with its very own hammering heartbeat; a tinpandemonium of rat-tat-tat, thumpthump-thump, boom-bang-a-bang.

This is followed by the clangour of guitar strings and the slapping of keyboard.

Doors don't lead onto classrooms round here, but into recording studios.

I'm getting the grand tour from senior music ...

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